21st Century Teachers

1. Eight Habits of
Highly Effective
21st
Century Teachers
Prepared by:
Helmut S. Abao

2.  formulated by Andrew Churches as a guide in
developing competence
 is a challenge to all who are engage in
teaching profession specially the old ones with
pessimistic attitude to take the risk in keeping
themselves current and updated in order to
embrace the challenge, a change

3. 2. Being Visionary
 Adapting the curriculum and
the requirements to teach the
curriculum.
 Adapting to technology and
use it as tools in teaching a
variety of age groups and
abilities.
1. Adapting
 Having a vision of grasping,
manipulating, and using
emerging tools and web
technologies.
 Looking at others’ ideas and
envisioning how it could be
used in one’s own class.

4. 3. Collaborating
 Use collaborative tools to
enhance and captivate
learners such as Twitter,
Blogger, FB, etc.
 Educators must be
collaborators who are sharing,
contributing, adapting and
inventing.
4. Taking Risks
 Surrender yourself to the
students’ knowledge.
 Accept that there is still so
much to learn.
 Use the strengths of digital
natives to understand and
navigate new products and
have them teach each other.

5. 5. Learning
 Educators, like students, should also be life-long
learners and endeavor to stay current.
 Lesson plans from five years ago may not be
suitable and appropriate to the present learners.
 Update yourself with current research studies
and published articles.

6. 6. Communicating
 Learning took place anytime and anywhere as
stipulated in new dimension of teaching learning
setting. So, teacher also must be anywhere and
anytime using its communicative skills via the full
advantage of technologies.
 A 21st century teacher must be fluent in tools and
technologies that communication offers.

7. 7. Modelling Behavior
 The proverb “Don’t worry if the children don’t listen to you;
Worry if they are watching you” explains best the theory of
modelling being the best way of teaching.
 To teach is to show. To teach values, one must model these
values/behavior.
 The 21st century educator must model tolerance, global
awareness, and reflective practice.

8. 8. Leading
 Leadership is crucial to the
success or failure of any
project.
 Teachers must possess a
sense of leadership.

9. Thank you
for listening!